Method for providing highly luminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on nail and skin and ornamentation set or make-up set for providing ornamentation or make-up thereof

ABSTRACT

A method for providing highly luminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin, wherein an applicator filled with a coating liquid which contains at least water and an O/W type emulsion resin and which has tackiness even after drying is used to coat the coating liquid on a nail and the skin in the form of optional shapes and characters, and then the coated drawn lines are dried; a transfer foil is pressed to contact with the coated drawn lines endowed with tackiness; and the foil is peeled off, whereby highly luminous or highly masking drawn lines are transferred, or wherein coloring material powders are pressed to contact with the foregoing coated drawn lines endowed with tackiness without using a transfer foil, and the powders left outside the coated drawn lines are brushed off, whereby highly luminous or highly masking drawn lines are obtained.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a method for providing highly luminousor highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin withoptional drawing lines, and an ornamentation set or a make-up set forproviding the above ornamentation or make-up.

BACKGROUND ART

A method in which a liquid prepared by mixing and dispersing a coloringmaterial comprising a dye and a pigment and a fixing resin in a solventis applied on a nail and the skin by means of a brush or a brush tip andin which the solvent is volatilized to thereby fix the drawn lines hasso far been usually known as a method for providing highly luminous orhighly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin withoptional drawing lines. In the above case, in order to obtain drawnlines having a brilliant high luminance, a scaly pearl pigment, aluminumflakes, lame particles and the like are blended as coloring materials.

However, the above scaly coloring materials are unevenly arranged on thedrawn lines, and therefore a granular feeling is exerted to make itimpossible to produce a continuous glossy feeling. Further, the largeparticles are liable to cause clogging in the brush or at the brush tip,and therefore it has been difficult to blend the scaly coloringmaterials at a high concentration.

Also, known as a method for applying a highly luminous scaly coloringmaterial at a high density is a method in which a press powder preparedby mixing a small amount of waxes and oils with the above coloringmaterials and subjecting the mixture to compression molding is appliedby a brush (commercially available, for example, for an eyeshadow). Inthe above method, however, a large amount of a fixing resin can not beblended, and therefore the defect that the coloring material is liableto peel off after applied is involved therein.

On the other hand, for example, a method in which an adhesive is appliedon a coating surface of a nail and the skin and then a transfer foildeposited with aluminum is pressed to contact therewith to therebytransfer drawn lines thereon was proposed in the past in order toexpress highly luminous drawn lines (refer to, for example, patentdocuments 1 and 2).

The present inventors carried out reproduction tests based on therespective methods described in the foregoing patent documents 1 and 2to find that while drawn lines having a continuous metallic glossyfeeling were obtained under certain conditions, the transferringproperty was dispersed according to ambient temperature and a dryingtime of an adhesive and that it was difficult to simply obtain gooddrawn lines.

Further, it has been found that involved therein are the problems thatapplied parts such as nails, the backs of the hands and insides of theupper arms were different in an adhesive performance and that the stabletransferring performances can not be obtained. Accordingly, the testswere carried out in various manners by changing the kind and thephysical properties of the adhesives and the constitutions of therespective layers of the transfer foil, but the satisfactorytransferring performance could not be obtained as well.

PRIOR ART DOCUMENTS Patent Documents

-   Patent document 1: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.    1987-284605 (claims, Examples and others)-   Patent document 2: Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1990-169290    (claims, Examples and others)

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention

In light of the problems on the conventional arts described above, thepresent invention intends to solve them, and an object thereof is toprovide a method for readily providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin with optional drawinglines, and an ornamentation set or a make-up set for providing the aboveornamentation or make-up.

Means for Solving the Invention

In light of the conventional problems described above, intenseresearches repeated by the present inventors have resulted in findingthat the foregoing purpose of providing highly luminous or highlymasking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin with optionaldrawing lines can be achieved by applying a coating liquid having aspecific composition filled in a known applicator and combining aspecific transfer foil or a specific coloring material therewith, andthus the present invention has come to be completed.

That is, the present invention comprises the following items (1) to (9).

(1) A method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin, wherein an applicatorfilled with a coating liquid which contains at least water and an O/Wtype emulsion resin and which has tackiness even after drying is used tocoat the coating liquid on a nail and the skin in the form of optionalshapes and characters, and then the coated drawn lines are dried; atransfer foil is pressed to contact with the coated drawn lines endowedwith tackiness; and the foil is peeled off, whereby highly luminous orhighly masking drawn lines are transferred.(2) A method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin, wherein an applicatorfilled with a coating liquid which contains at least water and an O/Wtype emulsion resin and which has tackiness even after drying is used tocoat the coating liquid on a nail and the skin in the form of optionalshapes and characters, and then the coated drawn lines are dried;coloring material powders are pressed to contact with the coated drawnlines endowed with tackiness; and the powders left outside the coateddrawn lines are brushed off by means of a cleaning utensil, wherebyhighly luminous or highly masking drawn lines are obtained.(3) The method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin as described in theabove item (1) or (2), wherein the coating liquid has such tackinessthat a coating film having a thickness of 50 μm formed by using thecoating liquid is dried for 30 minutes under the environment of atemperature of 25° C. and a humidity of 65% and has a tackiness of ballnumber 1 or more in a slope system ball tack test (a slope angle: 30°,25° C.) after drying.(4) The method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin as described in any oneof the above items (1) to (3), wherein the O/W type emulsion resincontained in the coating liquid is at least one selected from(acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate) copolymers and (acrylate/alkyl (C12 to22) methacrylate) copolymers.(5) The method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin as described in any oneof the above items (1) to (4), wherein the drawn lines in coating aretransparent to translucent opalescent and turned into a white color indrying, whereby the drawn lines can be perceived, and a degree ofdryness in the drawn lines is judged by a change in a color tone(whiteness) thereof.(6) The method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin as described in any oneof the above items (1) to (4), wherein an emulsion resin comprising a(styrene/alkyl methacrylate) copolymer is blended to indicate a degreeof dryness in the drawn lines by a change in a color tone (whiteness)thereof.(7) The method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin as described in theabove item (1), wherein the transferring foil is a cold foil having noheat-sensitive hot melt layer.(8) An ornamentation set or a make-up set for providing highly luminousor highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin,comprising a coating liquid and a transfer foil or coloring materialpowders, wherein the coating liquid has such tackiness that a coatingfilm having a thickness of 50 μm formed by using the coating liquid isdried for 30 minutes under the environment of a temperature of 25° C.and a humidity of 65% and has a tackiness of ball number 1 or more in aslope system ball tack test (a slope angle: 30°, 25° C.) after drying.(9) The ornamentation set or make-up set for providing highly luminousor highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin asdescribed in the above item (8), wherein the O/W type emulsion resincontains at least one selected from (acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate)copolymers and (acrylate/alkyl (C12 to 22) methacrylate) copolymers inthe coating liquid.

Effects of the Invention

According to the present invention, provide a method by which a nail andthe skin can be readily provided with highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up with optional drawing lines and anornamentation set or a make-up set for providing the above ornamentationor make-up.

BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional drawing showing one example of theembodiments of the applicator used for a method for providing highlyluminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and theskin according to the present invention.

MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

The embodiment of the present invention shall be explained below indetail.

In the first embodiment, the method for providing highly luminous orhighly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin accordingto the present invention is characterized in that an applicator filledwith a coating liquid which contains at least water and an O/W typeemulsion resin and which has tackiness even after drying is used to coatthe coating liquid on a nail and the skin in the form of optional shapesand characters, and then the coated drawn lines are dried; a transferfoil is pressed to contact with the coated drawn lines endowed withtackiness; and the foil is peeled off, whereby highly luminous or highlymasking drawn lines are transferred.

In the second embodiment, the method of the present invention ischaracterized in that an applicator filled with the same coating liquidas in the first embodiment described above is used to coat the coatingliquid on a nail and the skin in the form of optional shapes andcharacters, and then the coated drawn lines are dried; coloring materialpowders are pressed contact with the coated drawn lines endowed withtackiness; and the powders left outside the coated drawn lines arebrushed off by means of a cleaning utensil, whereby highly luminous orhighly masking drawn lines are obtained.

“The present invention” referred to in the following explanationsincludes the first embodiment and the second embodiment each describedabove.

The coating liquid used in the present invention is characterized by acoating liquid which contains at least an O/W type emulsion resin andwater (refined water, ion-exchanged water, purified water and the like)and which has tackiness (stickiness) even after drying.

In the present invention, in order to endow the coating liquid withtackiness after drying, the specific O/W type emulsion resin has to beblended. The O/W type emulsion resin which can be used includes, forexample, at least one selected from (acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate)copolymers and (acrylate/alkyl (C12 to 22) methacrylate) copolymers.

In a case of commercially available products, capable of being used areNikasol MH-6010, TS-620 (emulsion resins manufactured by Nippon CarbideIndustries Co., Inc.) which are (acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate)copolymers, SOLTEX OPT (emulsion resin manufactured by The Dow ChemicalCompany) which is an (acrylate/alkyl (C12 to 22) methacrylate)copolymer.

The coating liquid used in the present invention contains the foregoingO/W type emulsion resin and water as the principal components, and theO/W type emulsion resin is blended preferably in a range of 10 to 70% bymass (in terms of a solid content) based on the total amount of thecoating liquid.

When the blending amount of the O/W type emulsion resin is less than 10%by mass, the tackiness after drying is short to bring about the problemsthat the transfer foil is insufficiently peeled off at the subsequentwork step or that the highly luminous or highly masking coloringmaterial is weakly fixed and readily peeled off. On the other hand, whenthe blending amount of the O/W type emulsion resin is too large inexcess of 70% by mass, the coating liquid is liable to be dried andsolidified at the tip of the applicator, and it is difficult to draw thestable lines. Accordingly, both are not preferred.

Known water-soluble resins for strengthening an adhesive power may beadded, in addition to the O/W type emulsion resin described above, asoptional components to the coating liquid used in the present invention,and ethanol may be added thereto in order to enhance of a dryingproperty of the drawn lines. However, if ethanol is added in a largeamount, the O/W type emulsion resin described above becomes instable,and the satisfactory tackiness is not obtained after drying, so that anaddition amount of ethanol is restricted preferably within 20% by massbased on the total amount of the coating liquid.

In addition thereto, known preservatives and thickeners for controllingthe viscosity may be added in combination with the coating liquid, andsince the tackiness after drying has to remain finally, the materialsare selected and controlled so that the suited combination thereof isobtained. Also, known water-soluble resins may be used in combination inorder to control the tackiness. The known water-soluble resins referredto in the above case increase gradually in a viscosity with drying andlose tackiness after dried, and therefore when they are used alone, theperformances of the present invention are not exerted. However, they canbe supplementary blended in order to improve the tackiness in thebeginning of drying and enhance the stickiness after transferring thefoil. Capable of being used are, for example, Jurymer AT-210 (alkylacrylate copolymer ammonium) manufactured by Toagosei Co., Ltd., PVP-K90(polyvinylpyrrolidone) manufactured by Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd., andthe like.

The coating liquid used in the present invention contains at leastwater, the O/W type emulsion resin and, if necessary, the respectiveblending components described above, and the balance of water. Morepreferably, an emulsion resin comprising a (styrene/alkyl acrylate)copolymer is blended so as to make it possible to judge a degree ofdryness in the drawn lines by a change in a color tone (whiteness)thereof.

In the coating liquid of the present invention, the O/W type emulsionresin described above which is the principal component is usuallyopalescent and has a little weak coloring property, and the coated drawnlines thereof are slightly less liable to be perceived. In thisconnection, a method in which coloring materials such as a dye and apigment are blended is considered, but in this case, an adverse effectis exerted in a certain case on the quality of drawn lines obtained bytransferring and the like at subsequent steps. Further, in that case, itis less liable to be judged whether or not the drawn lines are dried,and therefore the emulsion resin comprising a (styrene/alkyl acrylate)copolymer which is an acryl base emulsion resin is preferably blended.

In a case of commercially available products, ROMSPHERE PGL and OPULYN305 (emulsion resin manufactured by The Dow Chemical Company) areinvolved as the (styrene/alkyl acrylate) copolymer which can be used.

In respect to a blending amount of the above (styrene/alkyl acrylate)copolymer, it is blended preferably in a range of 2.5 to 10% by mass (interms of a solid content) based on the total amount of the coatingliquid.

When the blending amount of the above (styrene/alkyl acrylate) copolymeris less than 2.5% by mass, a coloring power thereof is weak, and theeffects thereof are unsatisfactory. On the other hand, when the blendingamount is too large in excess of 10% by mass, that is a factor forinhibiting the tackiness on the coated surface after drying, andtherefore it is not preferred as well.

If the coating liquid is blended with the (styrene/alkyl acrylate)copolymer described above, the drawn lines are pale white in coating thecoating liquid but clearly increased in whiteness as two minutes pass atroom temperature, and after drying, they are provided with a certainwhiteness. This makes it possible to locate the coated spots andperceive the drying state of the drawn lines, and therefore the qualityin transferring the foil at the subsequent step can be stabilized.

Blending of the (styrene/alkyl acrylate) copolymer with the coatingliquid containing water and the O/W type emulsion resin makes itpossible to judge a degree of dryness in the drawn lines by a change ina color tone (whiteness) thereof. To be specific, the drawn lines incoating are transparent to translucent opalescent (pale white drawnlines), and as several minutes (2 minutes) pass at room temperature, thedrawn lines are increased clearly in whiteness and turned into a certainwhiteness (white color) after drying. This makes it possible to locatethe coated spots and perceive the drying state of the drawn lines.Accordingly, a degree of dryness in the drawn lines can be easily judgedby a change in a color tone (whiteness) thereof, and the quality intransferring the foil and pressing to contact the coloring material witha nail and the skin at the subsequent steps can be stabilized.

In the present invention, the coating liquid which has tackiness evenafter drying means, to be specific, such a coating liquid that a coatingfilm having a thickness of 50 μm formed by using the coating liquid isdried for 30 minutes under the environment of a temperature of 25° C.and a humidity of 65% and has a tackiness of ball number 1 or more in aslope system ball tack test (a slope angle: 30°, 25° C.) after drying.

The slope system ball tack test in the present invention (includingexamples described later) is a measuring method employed in JIS Z0237:2009. In the measuring method, total 31 kinds of balls excluding5/64, 7/64, 9/64, 15/64 and 17/64 balls among steel balls which comprisetwo kinds of high carbon chromium bearing steel materials prescribed inJIS G 4805 and in which “nominal sizes of balls” in JIS B 1501 are sizesof 1/16 to 1 are put on the top of a triangle device equipped with slopeplates having a slope angle of 20°, 30° or 40°; the ball rolls on arunaway (100 mm) and stops on an adhesive surface (100 mm) subsequent tothe runaway; a numerical value obtained by multiplying a “nominal sizeof ball” of the balls stopped on the adhesive surface by 32 isdesignated as a “ball number”, and the test result is shown by thelargest ball number of the stopped balls. This method is called as wellJ. Dow method.

In the present invention, preferred is the coating liquid having suchtackiness that a coating film having a thickness of 50 μm formed byusing the coating liquid having the composition described above is driedfor 30 minutes under the environment of a temperature of 25° C. and ahumidity of 65% and has a tackiness of ball number of 1 or more in theslope system ball tack test (a slope angle: 30°, 25° C.) after dryingaccording to the measuring method described above. The stronger thetackiness is, the better the coating liquid is, and therefore an upperlimit of the ball number is preferably as large as possible.

The coating liquid having such tackiness that the ball number describedabove is provided can be prepared by suitably combining the kind and theamount of the O/W type emulsion resin and other blend components.

The coating liquid used in the present invention can be prepared by ausual method, and it is filled in, for example, an applicator andapplied on a nail and the skin.

The applicator which can be used shall not specifically be restricted aslong as a suitable amount of the coating liquid can be coated on a nailand/or the skin in the form of optional shapes and characters, andcapable of being listed are, for example, an applicator prepared byfilling the coating liquid in a bottle vessel equipped with a brush andan applicator prepared by filling the coating liquid in a coating vesselequipped with a coating means (coating tip) such as a brush or a penfeed.

To be specific, applicators prepared by filling the coating liquid in abottle equipped with a brush or a vessel equipped with a brush, acoating tip of a pen type or the like via a valve mechanism at a tip ofthe vessel are preferred for coating optional characters and patterns.

For example, an applicator A shown in FIG. 1 can be listed. Thisapplicator A has a constitution of a conventional applicator of pen typein which a front holder 3 and a rear barrel 4 are combined to therebystore the coating liquid and in which a valve rod 5, an applying feed 6of a pen type as a coating tip, a mouthpiece 7, an inner feed 8, astirring ball 9 and the like are held. The valve rod 5 is opened bypressing the applying feed 6 of a pen type onto the skin and the like,and the coating liquid is supplied to the applying feed 6 and coated. Itis a matter of course that the present embodiment may be applied notonly to the above applicator but also to applicators of other modes. Acap main body 2 is interfit with an ornament 1 for a cap and integratedto form a cap. The cap surrounds the applying feed 6 by interfittingwith the front holder 3 and can shut down the flow of air through anoutside space, and therefore the applying feed 6 can be prevented frombeing dried.

In the present invention, the users apply the coating liquid of thepresent invention on a nail and/or the skin with the tip of therespective applicators described above to draw optional shapes (patternsand the like) and characters thereon, and then the drawn shapes andcharacters are dried at room temperature (25° C.). They are driedpreferably for at least 1 minute, usually for 1 to 10 minutes and morepreferably for 1 to 5 minutes. In conventional arts, an adhesiveproperty of an adhesive has been changed every moment according to adrying time, and if too early, the adhesive property has been weak tomake it impossible to transfer a transfer foil. In contrast with this,if the drying time is long, the coating liquid is solidified, and thetransfer foil has not been able to be transferred as well. Also, it hasbeen difficult to adhere lame particles as well. The work has so far hadto be carried out in a certain range of a drying time in order totransfer well a transfer foil, and since the drying time depends on anambient temperature and a humidity, it has not been easy to carry outthe transferring. In the present invention, while an initial drying timeis different depending on an ambient temperature and a humidity, thetackiness is kept after drying, and therefore transferring and the likein the stable quality become possible without worrying about thedelicate drying time.

In the first embodiment in the present invention, after the coatedsurface is dried, the transfer foil is pressed on and brought intocontact with the coated drawn lines endowed with tackiness, and the foilis peeled off to thereby transfer highly luminous or highly maskingdrawn lines, whereby the targeted nail and skin can be provided withhighly luminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up with optionaldrawn lines. Also, in the second embodiment, the coloring materialpowders are pressed on and brought into contact with the coated drawnlines endowed with tackiness, and the powders left outside the coateddrawn lines are brushed off by means of a cleaning utensil to therebyobtain highly luminous or highly masking drawn lines, whereby thetargeted nail and skin can be provided with highly luminous or highlymasking ornamentation or make-up with optional drawn lines.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the transfer foilshall not specifically be restricted as long as it can transfer highlyluminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up, and capable ofbeing listed are, for example, a thin film prepared by coating 1) aresin film of PET and the like as a substrate with 2) a coloring layer(a release layer), 3) an aluminum deposition layer and 4) an adhesivelayer in this order, and a film called a so-called pigment foil havingno aluminum deposition layer. In general, heat is applied from the PETsurface of 1) to heat and melt the resins of 2) the coloring layer and4) the adhesive layer, and patterns and the like are transferred on amatter to be transferred thereon. In the present invention, however,preferred is a cold foil having no heat-sensitive hot melt layer inwhich the resin layers of 2) the coloring layer and 4) the adhesivelayer can readily be released without applying heat. To be specific, thelayers can be more easily released by reducing a thickness of the resinlayer and blending silica so that cohesive failure is liable to becaused. The coloring material used in the coloring layer may beso-called dyes and pigments which can be used for industrialapplications, and preferred are coloring materials which can be used forcosmetics, such as titanium oxide, iron oxide, iron blue pigments,ultramarine blue pigments, D & C Black No. 2, FD & C Blue No. 1 and lakepigments, FD & C Yellow No. 5 and lake pigments, FD & C Yellow No. 6 andlake pigments, D & C Red No. 6, D & C Red No. 7, D & C Red No. 34 and D& C Red No. 30.

In the present first embodiment, the transfer foil on which aluminum isdeposited is used in order to obtain highly luminous or highly maskingdrawn lines, and it is no problem as well to use the foregoing pigmentfoil which is constituted only by the coloring layer and the adhesivelayer without providing the deposition layer. The continuous coloringlayer is transferred on the surface of the drawn lines endowed withtackiness, and therefore the drawn lines having glossiness can beobtained.

In the second embodiment of the present invention, the coloring materialsuch as flaky pearl pigments, aluminum flakes, lame particles and highlymasking pigments is sprinkled on the surface of the drawn lines endowedwith tackiness and pressed lightly thereon, and then the surpluscoloring material is removed by means of a cleaning utensil such as abrush, a tissue and a paintbrush, whereby the coloring material remainson the drawn lines at a high density. Accordingly, the highly luminousor highly masking (high density) drawn lines as compared with the drawnlines obtained by coating the coloring material dispersed in the liquidcan be obtained. Also, since the tackiness described above is stronglyleft on the dried surface of the coating liquid, the coloring materialis fixed thereon, and therefore the drawn lines which are less liable tobe peeled off from the skin and the like as compared with the presspowder described above can be obtained.

In the method of the present invention constituted in the mannerdescribed above, highly luminous or highly masking ornamentation ormake-up can be easily provided on a nail and the skin with optionaldrawn lines.

Also, the ornamentation set or the make-up set of the present inventionis used for readily providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin with optional drawinglines, and prepared is a set obtained by combining a vessel or anapplicator filled and the coating liquid described above, an ink jetcartridge and an ink jet printer with transfer foil on which aluminum isdeposited in order to obtain highly luminous or highly masking drawnlines, a pigment foil, and coloring material powders of a flaky pearlpigment, an aluminum flake, lame particles, a highly masking pigment orthe like, whereby the method of the present invention can be readilycarried out.

EXAMPLES

Next, the present invention shall be explained in detail with referenceto examples, but the present invention shall not be restricted by thefollowing examples.

Example 1

O/W type emulsion resin 30.0% by mass (SOLTEX OPT, acrylate/alkyl (C12to 22) methacrylate copolymer, solid content: 48%, manufactured by TheDow Chemical Company) Ethanol 10.0% by mass (Styrene/alkyl acrylate)copolymer 20.0% by mass (ROMSPHERE PGL, solid content: 25%, manufacturedby The Dow Chemical Company) Water (refined water) 24.0% by massTackiness controlling resin 15.0% by mass (Jurymer AT-210, manufacturedby Toagosei Co., Ltd.) Hydroxyethyl cellulose (thickener)  0.1% by massPhenoxyethanol (preservative)  0.9% by mass

The raw material components described above were mixed and stirred toobtain a coating liquid.

A tackiness of the coating liquid was measured by the slope system balltack measuring method described above to find that the ball number was1.

The coating liquid was filled in a vessel shown in FIG. 1 in which acoating tip of a pen type comprising polyacetal resin was provided at atip via a valve mechanism to prepare an applicator.

Next, the coating liquid was discharged from the coating tip of a pentype to draw optional patterns on an arm.

After dried at room temperature for 2 minutes, a golden transfer foil(cold foil NSA-6, manufactured by Murata Kimpaku Co., Ltd.) was pressedthereon and slowly peeled off, and highly luminous and highly maskinggolden drawn lines were transferred on the arm. Similarly, after driedfor 10 minutes and after dried for 20 minutes, the transfer foil waspressed thereon and then slowly peeled off, and highly luminous andhighly masking golden drawn lines were transferred on the arm regardlessof the time.

In coating the coating liquid on the arm, the coating liquid was changedfrom transparency to a translucent opalescent color (pale white drawnlines), and as 2 minutes passed at room temperature as described above,the coating liquid was increased clearly in whiteness. After drying, thedrawn lines were provided with a certain whiteness (white color), and itwas found that the coated spots were readily located and that the dryingstate of the drawn lines could be perceived. Also, it was found that adegree of dryness in the drawn lines could be judged readily by a changein a color tone (whiteness) thereof. Also, a degree of dryness in thedrawn lines could be readily judged by a change in a color tone(whiteness) thereof as well in Examples 2 to 5.

Example 2

The coating liquid and the applicator obtained in Example 1 describedabove were used to discharge the coating liquid from the coating tip inthe same manner to draw optional patterns on an arm.

After dried at room temperature for 2 minutes, silver lame powders(Diamond Piece H-55UC, average particle size: 150 μm, manufactured byDaiya Kogyo Co., Ltd.) were sprinkled thereon and pressed with a facialtissue, and then the surplus lame powders were removed by means of abrush to find that highly luminous and highly masking silver drawn lineswere left on the arm.

Example 3

The components were mixed and stirred in the same composition as inExample 1 to obtain a coating liquid, except that the ON type emulsionresin 30% by mass used in Example 1 was substituted with the followingemulsion resin 30% by mass:

O/W type emulsion resin 30.0% by mass (Nikasol MH-6010,acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate copolymer, solid content: 58%, manufacturedby Nippon Carbide Industries Co., Inc.)

A tackiness of the coating liquid was measured by the slope system balltack measuring method described above to find that the ball number was2.

The coating liquid was filled, as was the case with Example 1, in thevessel shown in FIG. 1 in which a coating tip of a pen type comprisingpolyacetal resin was provided at a tip via a valve mechanism to preparean applicator.

Next, the coating liquid was discharged from the coating tip of a pentype to draw optional patterns on an arm.

After dried at room temperature for 2 minutes, the golden transfer foil(cold foil NSA-6, manufactured by Murata Kimpaku Co., Ltd.) was pressedthereon and then slowly peeled off, and highly luminous and highlymasking golden drawn lines were transferred on the arm.

Example 4

The components were mixed and stirred in the same composition as inExample 1 to obtain a coating liquid, except that the O/W type emulsionresin 30% by mass used in Example 1 was substituted with the followingemulsion resin 30% by mass:

O/W type emulsion resin 30.0% by mass (Nikasol TS-620,acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate copolymer, solid content: 58%, manufacturedby Nippon Carbide Industries Co., Inc.)

A tackiness of the coating liquid was measured by the slope system balltack measuring method described above to find that the ball number was2.

The coating liquid was filled, as was the case with Example 1, in thevessel shown in FIG. 1 in which a coating tip of a pen type comprisingpolyacetal resin was provided at a tip via a valve mechanism to preparean applicator.

Next, the coating liquid was discharged from the pen tip to drawoptional patterns on an arm.

After dried at room temperature for 2 minutes, the golden transfer foil(cold foil NSA-6, manufactured by Murata Kimpaku Co., Ltd.) was pressedthereon and then slowly peeled off, and highly luminous and highlymasking golden drawn lines were transferred on the arm.

Example 5

The components were mixed and stirred in the same composition as inExample 1 to obtain a coating liquid, except that the tackinesscontrolling resin (Jurymer AT-210, manufactured by Toagosei Co., Ltd.)15% by mass used in Example 1 was changed to PVP-K90 (manufactured byNippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.) 2% by mass and that the balance of 13% wassubstituted with water (refined water) (sum of water: 37%).

A tackiness of the coating liquid was measured by the slope system balltack measuring method described above to find that the ball number was2.

The coating liquid was filled, as was the case with Example 1, in thevessel shown in FIG. 1 in which a coating tip of a pen type comprisingpolyacetal resin was provided at a tip via a valve mechanism to preparean applicator.

Next, the coating liquid was discharged from the pen tip to drawoptional patterns on an arm.

After dried at room temperature for 2 minutes, the golden transfer foil(cold foil NSA-6, manufactured by Murata Kimpaku Co., Ltd.) was pressedthereon and then slowly peeled off, and highly luminous and highlymasking golden drawn lines were transferred on the arm.

Example 6

The same coating liquid and applicator as in Example 1 were used to drawoptional patterns on an arm.

After dried at room temperature for 2 minutes, a green pigment foil(GF-177 Green, manufactured by Murata Kimpaku Co., Ltd.) was pressedthereon and then slowly peeled off, and highly masking green drawn lineswere transferred on the arm.

Example 7

The same coating liquid as in Example 5 was filled in an ink cartridgeICBK57 (manufactured by Seiko Epson Corp.) which was carefully cleaned,and this was set in a PX-W8000 printer (manufactured by Seiko EpsonCorp.) which was partially remodeled. Optional patterns were drawn onthe back of a hand by means of the above printer, and after dried atroom temperature for 2 minutes, the golden transfer foil (cold foilSA-6, manufactured by Murata Kimpaku Co., Ltd.) was pressed thereon andthen slowly peeled off, whereby highly luminous and highly maskinggolden patterns were transferred on the back of the hand.

Comparative Example 1

The components were mixed and stirred in the same composition as inExample 1 to obtain a coating liquid, except that the O/W type emulsionresin 30% by mass endowed with a tackiness after drying in Example 1described above was substituted with the following conventional emulsionresin 30% by mass:

O/W type emulsion resin 30.0% by mass (Yodosol GH-800F, alkyl acrylatecopolymer ammonium, solid content: 45%, manufactured by Akzo Nobel N.V.)

A tackiness of the coating liquid was measured by the slope system balltack measuring method described above to find that the ball number wassmaller than 1 and that it could not be measured. That is, the tackinessafter drying was not exerted.

The coating liquid was filled, as was the case with Example 1, in thevessel shown in FIG. 1 in which a coating tip of a pen type comprisingpolyacetal resin was provided at a tip via a valve mechanism to preparean applicator.

Next, the coating liquid was discharged from the pen tip to drawoptional patterns on an arm.

After dried at room temperature for 2 minutes, the golden transfer foil(cold foil NSA-6, manufactured by Murata Kimpaku Co., Ltd.) was pressedthereon and then slowly peeled off, and the foil was not transferred onthe arm. Also, after dried for 10 minutes and 20 minutes, the foil waspressed thereon and then slowly peeled off, but the foil was nottransferred as well. After 2 minutes, the liquid was insufficientlydried and low in a viscosity, and the sufficiently high tackiness wasnot exerted. Also, after 10 minutes and 20 minutes, the liquid was driedup, and the resin film was in a surface state in which tackiness islost, so that the foil was not transferred as well. A point in which thejust right tackiness was exerted was supposed to be present between theabove periods of time, and since the above time was changed according tothe coating thickness, the temperature and the humidity, it wasdifficult to transfer the foil in a stable quality.

Comparative Example 2

The coating liquid and the applicator obtained in Example 1 describedabove were used to discharge the coating liquid from the coating tip inthe same manner to draw optional patterns on an arm.

After dried at room temperature for 2 minutes, a golden thermal transferfoil (FINE FOIL ST-4-H, manufactured by Katani Sangyo Co., Ltd.) whichwas usually used was pressed thereon and then slowly peeled off, but thefoil was not transferred. The thermal transfer foil which is usuallyused has a strong strength between a PET film which is a substrate and arelease layer, and it can be transferred by melting the release layer byheating. However, it is considered that the release layer can not bereleased with tackiness of the coating liquid of the present invention.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

Highly luminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up can beprovided on a nail and the skin with optional drawing lines.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMERALS AND LETTERS

-   A Applicator-   1 Ornament for a cap-   2 Cap main body-   3 Front holder-   4 Rear barrel-   5 Valve rod-   6 Applying feed-   7 Mouthpiece-   8 Inner feed-   9 Stirring ball

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for providing highly luminous or highlymasking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin, wherein anapplicator filled with a coating liquid which contains at least waterand an O/W type emulsion resin and which has tackiness even after dryingis used to coat the coating liquid on a nail and the skin in the form ofoptional shapes and characters, and then the coated drawn lines aredried; a transfer foil is pressed to contact with the coated drawn linesendowed with tackiness; and the foil is peeled off, whereby highlyluminous or highly masking drawn lines are transferred.
 2. The methodfor providing highly luminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-upon a nail and the skin as described in claim 1, wherein the coatingliquid has such tackiness that a coating film having a thickness of 50μm formed by using the coating liquid is dried for 30 minutes under theenvironment of a temperature of 25° C. and a humidity of 65% and has atackiness of ball number 1 or more in a slope system ball tack test (aslope angle: 30°, 25° C.) after drying.
 3. The method for providinghighly luminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail andthe skin as described in claim 1, wherein the O/W type emulsion resincontained in the coating liquid is at least one selected from(acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate) copolymers and (acrylate/alkyl (C12 to22) methacrylate) copolymers.
 4. The method for providing highlyluminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and theskin as described in claim 1, wherein the drawn lines in coating aretransparent to translucent opalescent and turned into a white color indrying, whereby the drawn lines can be perceived, and a degree ofdryness in the drawn lines is judged by a change in a color tone(whiteness) thereof.
 5. The method for providing highly luminous orhighly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin asdescribed in claim 1, wherein an emulsion resin comprising a(styrene/alkyl acrylate) copolymer is blended to indicate a degree ofdryness in the drawn lines by a change in a color tone (whiteness)thereof.
 6. The method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin as described in claim 1,wherein the transfer foil is a cold foil having no heat-sensitive hotmelt layer.
 7. A method for providing highly luminous or highly maskingornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin, wherein an applicatorfilled with a coating liquid which contains at least water and an O/Wtype emulsion resin and which has tackiness even after drying is used tocoat the coating liquid on a nail and the skin in the form of optionalshapes and characters, and then the coated drawn lines are dried;coloring material powders are pressed to contact with the coated drawnlines endowed with tackiness; and the powders left outside the coateddrawn lines are brushed off by means of a cleaning utensil, wherebyhighly luminous or highly masking drawn lines are obtained.
 8. Themethod for providing highly luminous or highly masking ornamentation ormake-up on a nail and the skin as described in claim 7, wherein thecoating liquid has such tackiness that a coating film having a thicknessof 50 μm formed by using the coating liquid is dried for 30 minutesunder the environment of a temperature of 25° C. and a humidity of 65%and has a tackiness of ball number 1 or more in a slope system ball tacktest (a slope angle: 30°, 25° C.) after drying.
 9. The method forproviding highly luminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up ona nail and the skin as described in claim 7, wherein the O/W typeemulsion resin contained in the coating liquid is at least one selectedfrom (acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate) copolymers and (acrylate/alkyl (C12to 22) methacrylate) copolymers.
 10. The method for providing highlyluminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and theskin as described in claim 7, wherein the drawn lines in coating aretransparent to translucent opalescent and turned into a white color indrying, whereby the drawn lines can be perceived, and a degree ofdryness in the drawn lines is judged by a change in a color tone(whiteness) thereof.
 11. The method for providing highly luminous orhighly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and the skin asdescribed in claim 7, wherein an emulsion resin comprising a(styrene/alkyl acrylate) copolymer is blended to indicate a degree ofdryness in the drawn lines by a change in a color tone (whiteness)thereof.
 12. An ornamentation set or a make-up set for providing highlyluminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and theskin, comprising a coating liquid and a transferring foil or coloringmaterial powders, wherein the coating liquid has such tackiness that acoating film having a thickness of 50 μm formed by using the coatingliquid is dried for 30 minutes under the environment of a temperature of25° C. and a humidity of 65% and has a tackiness of ball number 1 ormore in a slope system ball tack test (a slope angle: 30°, 25° C.) afterdrying.
 13. The ornamentation set or make-up set for providing highlyluminous or highly masking ornamentation or make-up on a nail and theskin as described in claim 12, wherein the O/W type emulsion resincontains at least one selected from (acrylate/ethylhexyl acrylate)copolymers and (acrylate/alkyl (C12 to 22) methacrylate) copolymers inthe coating liquid.